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Tim Streater wrote:
Yes we were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter

Yes, I've posted a link to this before, when harry was also trying the
same b/s. Suggest you read it more carefully:

1) The klod was a yank, nothing to do with us in the UK, so we were not
"promised" anything.

You think something has to be original? I don't care who first used the
expression - it was used here by politicians and in the press and radio.
Without any qualification about the type of reaction.

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*A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Dave Plowman London SW
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